A ceasefire does not mean safety
Your donation today could help families stay safe from unexploded bombs
A ceasefire is vital but families in Gaza returning home still face life threatening dangers. As they attempt to rebuild unexploded bombs lie in wait. Every street, every building, every home may hide deadly risks.
Children face the biggest danger. Their natural curiosity puts them at the highest risk of injury. A child’s ability to identify an unexploded bomb could save their life. It is tragic to think of a child, who might finally feel safe after enduring two years of conflict, stumbling across one of these deadly weapons of war. We have to act now. We have to reach every child with life-saving messages before the unimaginable happens. Unless we act now to educate children and others, there will be further death and injury.
Stop a child finding a bomb.Your donation could provide children with lifesaving risk education helping to teach them how to recognise and avoid unexploded bombs. Time is urgent so please donate today.
Families are facing hidden dangers from explosive weapons, including missiles, grenades, shells, and mortars. Countless numbers of these weapons are buried under rubble, lodged in buildings and streets, or scattered across open areas where children play. The crisis of unexploded bombs in Gaza is thought to be one of the worst seen globally. We are in a race against time and we need your help.
In Gaza, MAG is warning families returning home about the dangers of hidden bombs in the rubble.
In Gaza, teams we are managing through our trusted local partner Save Youth Future Society (SYFS) are working to share safety messages on how to recognise and avoid unexploded bombs and other explosive items. These safety messages are lifesaving pieces of information that people need to survive.
A Palestinian mother of four boys explained to the team delivering one of the MAG education sessions, “After the ceasefire, we started hearing about many injuries caused by explosive weapons. Thank you for coming and raising our awareness; my children needed to listen to this directly from the educators, so they know how dangerous these items are and what to do if they see something unfamiliar.”
In addition to these crucial face-to-face sessions, MAG has launched a major mass digital advertising campaign using Facebook and Instagram to reach as many returning families as possible. Launched earlier this year in anticipation of a ceasefire, the initial phase of this work assisted over 250,000 people. Now that a ceasefire is in place, this is a critical time as people return home, and teams are working to urgently scale up and expand their reach.
Please donate what you can today. Your gift could help provide lifesaving information to families in Gaza and around the world as they try to return home and start to rebuild after violent conflicts.
